12 June 2025 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: General
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Boca Chica is a
municipality (
municipio) of the
Santo Domingo province in the
Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one
municipal district (
distritos municipal):
La Caleta. As of the 2022 census it had 167,040 inhabitants, 104,951 living in the
city itself and 62,089 in its rural
districts (
Secciones). Boca Chica has a popular
beach with the same name, located about 30 kilometers east of
Santo Domingo de Guzmán in the south-east region of the country.
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26 November 2024 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: General
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Santo Domingo (meaning “
Saint Dominic” but verbatim “Holy Sunday”), once known as
Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as
Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the
Dominican Republic and the
largest metropolitan area in the
Caribbean by population. As of 2022, the city and immediate surrounding area (the
Distrito Nacional) had a population of 1,029,110 while the total population is 3,798,699 when including
Greater Santo Domingo (the “
metropolitan area“). The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the
Distrito Nacional (“D.N.”, “National District”), itself bordered on three sides by
Santo Domingo Province.
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